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Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical
tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish
community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings,
Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia's
Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the
repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal
celebrations. Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped
define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its
current revival has changed klezmer's meaning historically. Klezmer
also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in
Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between
sacred and secular in Jewish music, and the development of
Philadelphia's distinctive "Russian Sher" medley, a unique and
masterfully crafted composition. Including a significant amount of
musical transcriptions, Klezmer chronicles this special musical
genre from its heyday in the immigrant era, through the mid-century
period of its decline through its revitalization from the 1980s to
today.
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